Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

by Lee Israel
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/08/2008

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Before turning to the criminal life, running a onewoman forgery scam out of an Upper West Side studio shared with her tortoiseshell cat, and dodging the FBI, Lee Israel enjoyed a celebrated reputation as an author. When her writing career suddenly took a turn for the worse, she conceived of the astonishing literary scheme that fooled even many of the experts. Forging hundreds of letters from such collectible luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, and Lillian Hellman -- and recreating their autographs with a flourish -- Israel sold her "memorabilia" to dealers across the country, producing a collection of pitch-perfect imitations virtually indistinguishable from the voices of their real-life counterparts. Exquisitely written, with reproductions of her marvelous forgeries, Can You Ever Forgive Me? is Israel's delightful, hilarious memoir of a brilliant and audacious literary crime caper.

ISBN:
9781416553779
9781416553779
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-08-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Lee Israel

Lee Israel was the author of Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Estee Lauder: Beyond the Magic, Kilgallen, and Miss Tallulah Bankhead.

She also worked as a copyeditor for Scholastic and American Express Publishing. She died in 2015.

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